From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Real syntax problems in Ada
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:13:08 +0200
Date: 2012-08-28T10:13:08+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1p5r39cusgc1n$.18nj9sytckk6$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
What are real problems with Ada syntax as opposed to the imaginary ones
(e.g. Ada does not look like C, Forth, Elder Futhark, you name it)?
My short list:
1. Too many unnecessarily reserved keywords;
2. "end record" instead of "end <record type name>";
3. "task type" and "protected type" instead of "type T is task ...";
4. "overriding procedure Foo" instead of "procedure Foo is overriding";
5. "X : T := E", but "procedure X is <body>";
6. Lack of per point notation for nD array aggregates, e.g.
Diag : Matrix := ((1,1)=>1.0, (2,2)=>1.0, (3,3)=>1.0, others => 0.0);
7. "exception" must be required in the bodies of tasks, Initialize,
Finalize (however, this could be resolved by non-syntactic means, e.g. by
contracted exceptions);
8. The order in which the keywords "new", "interface", "limited",
"abstract", "tagged", "private" may appear should be free.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2012-08-28 8:13 Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-08-28 10:20 ` Real syntax problems in Ada Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-28 10:47 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-08-28 11:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-08-31 13:35 ` Robert A Duff
2012-08-28 13:27 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-28 15:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-28 20:18 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-29 7:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-29 10:47 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-29 11:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-30 17:38 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-08-28 15:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-08-28 16:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-08-28 16:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-28 21:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-29 6:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-29 10:43 ` stefan-lucks
2012-08-29 10:58 ` stefan-lucks
2012-08-29 13:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-08-29 17:52 ` stefan-lucks
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2012-09-02 10:16 ` svaa
2012-08-29 13:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-29 17:20 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-08-29 17:51 ` stefan-lucks
2012-08-30 9:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-08-28 21:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-28 23:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-08-29 7:34 ` Egil Høvik
2012-08-28 19:41 ` Florian Weimer
2012-08-28 20:53 ` Shark8
2012-08-28 21:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-08-28 21:25 ` Shark8
2012-08-28 22:59 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-08-29 7:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-30 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-08-30 22:06 ` sbelmont700
2012-08-30 22:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-08-30 22:54 ` William Findlay
2012-08-31 7:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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